Sir Charles Blois, 1st Baronet (14 September 1657 – 9 April 1738) was a politician, a member of parliament

Member of Parliament

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 for both Ipswich

Ipswich

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 (May 1689 – 1695) and Dunwich

Dunwich

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 (January 1700 and 1709). On 15 April 1686, he was created 1st Baronet Blois

Blois family

The Blois family are major landowners in Suffolk. Sir Gervase Ralph Edmund Blois, 10th Baronet born on 6 June 1901. He was the son of Sir Ralph Barrett MacNaghten Blois, 9th Bt. and Winifred Grace Hegan Kennard. He married, firstly, Audrey Winifred Johnson, daughter of Colonel Harry Johnson, on 20...

, of Grundisburgh

Grundisburgh

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 and Cockfield Hall

Cockfield Hall

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. Blois was the son of Sir William Blois. With first wife Mary Kemp, whom he wed on 11 May 1680, he fathered Robert Blois, William Blois, and Sir Charles Blois, 3rd Baronet. He fathered an additional three on second wife Anne Hawtrey, whom he wed around April 18 in 1694: John Blois, Reverend Sir Ralph Blois, 4th Baronet and Anne Blois.